No Stupid Questions

like if you wanted to mix paint to get a color from a computer would you do the opposite of what the RGB value is? I'm confused

like if I wanted to take the RBG code R:99, G: 66, B, 33 wouldn't it look more lightful than if I mixed paint into 1 part blue, 2 part green, 3 part red? how would you paint a color code?

Its super easy to find programming courses, but they rarely cover how to actually deploy or "use" whats made, esspecially for web development. Is there a good way to learn this for free?

Or is it just my home? My wife's phone, my phone, the TV....

I can watch videos posted here, but I can't scroll through any other videos.

Could someone who has served or something please enlighten me?Just scratching my head wondering what about that process is keeping people from actually doing it. Beyond just saying "No," is there grievance paperwork? A petition? Witness statements? Is it as simple as having the balls to tell your CO no to their face and being open to consequences?

It seems like at very least there's a culture of "the people above me probably know better" and/or "don't be the squeaky wheel" but it doesn't seem to me that that should be enough for the level of inaction we seem to be seeing here. What gives?

Hey gang, I posted this in the relevant community but I figured it won't hurt to cast a larger net. I haven't done the custom ROM biz since around 2013 and I'm looking to degoogle my family on the cheap. I've spent the last 3 weeks getting dicked around by google pixels so if I can avoid those entirely I'd like to.

My plan is to go with CRDroid, curate the apps myself using mostly FOSS. Here's where I'm in need of an adult:

1. Oneplus 9 is in my price range and looks like it will last but I can only find it t-mobile locked. I can carrier unlock it myself, but will I be able to access the boot loader. I know I can't at all for Verizon, I wanna make sure i don't accidentally get trapped again.

2. I can't find many options outside of GrapheneOS, lineage, and crdroid, is that really the whole list? I like the options in crdroid but I'll take other suggestions.

3. I've been using Blu phones for ages, they don't come with any of the headache to get them unlocked and I've been using this one for nearly 8 years so I know they last. Is there a ROM that runs on Blu? I hate that all the compatible devices are name brand, high dollar, nonsense.

4. Are there any parental control apps that aren't just data harvesters? I want to give me kid a phone for emergencies, but he's 11 with ADHD that gives him the impulse control of a toddler surrounded by candy. It'd be safer for everyone if I didn't make is easy for him to repeat the mistakes I made at his age.

Any help whatsoever would be amazing, I've been coming apart at the seams over this for 3 weeks now and all I really want is to be able to take all the crap off my next phone and not wake up with new crap installed.

Ok maybe I should put it diffrently. I don't mean like an attack dog. More like a security dog and not have him picked on by bigger dogs he can stand up for himself. The only training school we have is loaning him out to the local sheriff which they don;t gurantee his safety.

My only content on reddit nowadays is pretty much only posting about lemmy and the link join-lemmy.org, to drive attention to lemmy.

I have noticed that my lemmy comments are removed. This happens on several accounts.

Can some of you please try, and let me know if your post is also removed?

That would be hilarious. Fuck them.

Hello,

I'm looking for inspiration to build something new in terms of software/hardware. I wrote down over 25 ideas in total, and by my own standards if I saw someone else building them I'd consider these ideas cool, some are innovative, but my ideas are not exactly what I'm looking for.

I'm looking to invent something and leveraging existing technologies, for example blockchain -> btc or neural networks -> ml/llm.

Some ideas I had:

• A streaming-service for indie movie makers (* no/low budget)
• Sleep optimizer that monitors sleep and changes room temperature, light, etc for better sleep
• A half-digital scavenger hunt game (some parts are online, some offline)
• A skillswap marketplace, instead of buying a service both parties exchange skills
• A website that asks user what challenges they face in their every day life
  ...

What are some *outside-the-box ideas you've heard of? How can I check the viability without building the software or hardware?

Just wondering as there are some people toxic either online or itl, but are the people online just as toxic as they are online or are they a different person irl?

Hopefully this post makes some sense.

I'm just surprised this hasn't already happened already...

Inspired by a comment in another thread, what was the path you took over your life, through the various online social media we've had?

By way of example, I started in Yahoo chatrooms, to a little bit of Myspace and private forums, to ICQ and IRC, to no online socials for awhile, to facebook, to 4chan, to reddit, ending up here on lemmy.

I've never used twitter, insta, tiktok, etc for any length of time.

If you'd like, your native language and a rough estimate of your age can be included for additional context.

I've been to therapists on and off all my adult life. I've never felt tired afterwards, or at least never noticed. This time, though? Noticeably tired.

Why is it that we use voltages and watts more often than amperages? 9v batteries, 12v car battery, 1000W Microwave oven. But amperages not so much, even though its "half" of what makes power, A*V=W. What property of amperes makes it so "unnecessary" to be aware of?

Bonus: how many amps and volts does a typical 1000W microwave use?

So im sorta a child of a hoarder but ive also done some stuff aswell, its nothing like whats on tv, but its still a problem as we want to move. My mother keeps saying she wants me and her to get the junk out first but shes having trouble terterming whats trash compared to me, nor can we really afford some team to clean everything up.

What would be the best course of action here, because 2 people is not working.

They host a bunch of services including a lemmy instance.

The admin is @povoq@slrpnk.net

All their services seem to be down?

I see this come up a lot in discussions about voting in America. Postal votes disproportionately go to Democrats, hence the Democrats want to expand postal voting while Republicans want to restrict it (and insist there is totally a bunch of fraud going on).

I've googled with a few search engines and haven't found a convincing reason. Lots of evidence that the skew is real, but no explanation as to why. Indeed, if one just looks at demographics, one would expect postal voting to benefit Republicans by facilitating votes from people in the countryside who live far away from voting centers.

So what actually gives?

Maybe my memory is faulty, but I never remembered having to pay a surcharge to use a credit card. Now everywhere I go there are signs saying that there is a 2.5-3.5% surcharge to use a car (and others that say that there’s a 2.5-3.5% discount for using cash, I assume to get around wording)